Nokia, Optus to provide IoT solutions to Australian industry customers
Australian operator Optus has selected Nokia’s IMPACT IoT platform to provide device management and data collection capabilities to customers in multiple industry segments in Australia, Nokia said in a …
Orange, De Beers use BLE geofencing for worker safety in deep-sea diamond mining
Orange Business Services, the enterprise services division of France-based carrier Orange, and De Beers Marine South Africa, part of diamond company De Beers, have developed and deployed a customised IoT …
Vale and Vivo to extend private LTE to Serra Leste mine in Brazil
Brazilian mining firm Vale has said it will extend its private LTE rollout to the Serra Leste open pit iron ore mine in Pará, Brazil. The move is part of …
Energy sector urged to get behind LTE – first with carriers, then with licences
The energy industry should consider the LTE family of cellular technologies, including NB-IoT, LTE-M, and 4G and 5G, to spur their longer-term Industry 4.0 ambitions, according to analyst house Guidehouse …
Nokia intros private 5G SA for industry, ties-up 5G mining deal with Sandvik
Nokia has announced the commercial availability of its industrial-grade standalone 5G (5G SA) solutions for private enterprise networks, alongside a new contract with the mining division of Swedish tool manufacturer …
Nokia deploys private LTE in underground NORCAT mine in Canada
Nokia has installed a private LTE network in an underground mine belonging to NORCAT in Ontario, in Canada. The work has been carried out with Canada’s Centre of Excellence in …
Seven start supply chain consortium to standardise blockchain for mining industry
Seven mining and metals companies have joined a World Economic Forum initiative to design and deploy blockchain solutions for the whole industry. The seven founding companies are Antofagasta Minerals, Eurasian …
Making Industry Smarter (report series) | Metals & Mining – Digging with Data
Digging for gold. The digital transformation of the metals and mining sectors – a review of the strategies, technologies and stakes in play as the mining industry seeks more sustainable …
Three private LTE deployments in the mining industry
The mining industry continues to recruit operators and vendors to deploy new industrial LTE and 5G networks on the promise of industrial change. Here is a summary of recently announced deployments. …
Coal, copper and gold – three smart mines, digging with data
1 | Anglo American, Capcoal coal mine, Queensland, Australia British mining company Anglo American has just started work in Australia on what it envisions as “one of the most technologically …
